Laboratory of Functional Genomics

The functional analysis of the human genome is the main activity of the laboratory. The researches are aimed at the study of gene functions, both in normal and mutant variants in hereditary human diseases. Special attention is paid to a little-known class of long non-coding RNAs capable of participating in the regulation of gene expression. Inventions made during the basic research are also used for applied purposes: DNA diagnostics of hereditary diseases and development of gene therapy approaches. Both modern molecular biological methods and bioinformatic analysis are widely used in the laboratory.